This is a sneak audio preview of what surely will be on Robert Scoble‘s upcoming video show on PodTech. Scoble gets up close and personal with SAP’s Shai Agassi at SAP TechEd 2006 in Las Vegas.

Wireless IT and entertainment intersect for the next three days at the 22nd CTIA expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. It’s appropriate that its being held for the first time in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world, as [See the full post…]

Patients desire improved treatments, voters call for safety, biomed startups want drug approval to continue in business and big pharma is after big profits. The Food and Drug Administration must grapple with these issues, which are only getting more complex. [See the full post…]

Shai Agassi addresses the value of SDN and announced Business Process Expert Community and its place in the construction of coherent business software models. Part 2 of 2.

Shai Agassi, president of the product and technology group and member of the executive board of SAP, addressed the crowd at SAP TechEd today in Las Vegas. He spoke and demonstrated principles involved in building modernized cores for business. This [See the full post…]

Part 2 of 2 of Apple’s announcement of new iPods, games, movies, and the upcoming iTV. Listen to part 1 of 2 Photos on Flickr

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says it is a constant balancing act to determine how much risk to consumers is acceptable in the drug approval process. No risk would result in few drugs coming to market. Some risk allows [See the full post…]

Steve Jobs delivered a special announcement at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco this morning. Major points: – New iPods. – iPod games can be purchased from iTMS. – Movies are available from iTMS. – [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 11, 2006 (PodTech News) — Mobile entertainment industry executives met Monday in Los Angeles at iHollywood Forum’s Mobile Entertainment Summit. On the agenda: discussions over the prospects of reaching 200 million United States mobile subscribers with content, [See the full post…]

LOS ANGELES, September 11, 2006 (PodTech News) — Wireless technologies and the content companies transforming the mobile entertainment marketplace were the focus today at the Mobile Entertainment Summit in Los Angeles. Over 600 attendees participated in panel discussions, keynote addresses, [See the full post…]

San Francisco Chronicle radio columnist, Rolling Stone writer, and author Ben Fong-Torres says community and local emphasis is the key to the survival of terrestrial radio, as the market penetration of satellite radio increases. PodTech’s Michael Johnson talked to him [See the full post…]

After Napster, Sean Fanning founded SNOCAP, in hopes of promoting peer-to-peer networking, but the company has since evolved into a provider of digital licensing and copyright management services for artists exploring the new digital music marketplace. Rusty Rueff is the [See the full post…]

Federal laws governing licensing fees still have to catch up with the reality of internet technology, according to Mark Lam, CEO of Live365.com, which streams music and more — from local football and neighborhood churches to the likes of music [See the full post…]

According to Terry McBride, CEO of Nettwerk Music, recording artists are forming new relationships with their fans, turning away from the traditional “push” media like radio and television, and making use of new technologies to reframe their business relationships. Nettwerk, [See the full post…]

Many exciting biomed startups have found a home in the venture capital market. “Public investors are risk averse these days,” says VentureWire’s Tom Salemi. “They only want to bet on as sure a thing as possible. That’s not usually the [See the full post…]

Four hundred members of the Linden Lab’s MMORPG Second Life got together for a community conference in San Francisco. With badges bearing their avatar names, participants flew in from as far away as Italy, Germany and Japan to hear panels [See the full post…]

Watch Video | Download Video “There are some really weird, creative companies that are succeeding now in Web 2.0.” With Web 2.0’s recent explosion of creativity, Halley Suitt, prominent blogger, CEO and publisher of Top 10 Sources observes that how [See the full post…]

Change is coming fast for health care investors, executives and entrepreneurs. Public investors have rejected companies built on once-surefire models. Big Pharma, after years of nibbling, is acquiring private drug companies to boost internal pipelines. IT may finally be making [See the full post…]

Canonical COO Jane Silber speaks with PodTech’s Michael Johnson about collaborations between enterprise and open source software. Silber says the cooperative model is the inevitable wave of the future.

There are over 4 million Linux-based mobile phones in China. Linux phones are quietly making their way to the U.S., and at LinuxWorld 2006 in San Francisco, PodTech’s Michael Johnson speaks with Karsten Homann of TrollTech, and Jim Cook of [See the full post…]

In this keynote speech from LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco, Xensource CEO Peter Levine, says though only 6 percent of new servers feature virtualization, its influence in the future of data center management is inevitable. Additional LinuxWorld 2006 [See the full post…]

In 2005 Nationwide, a Fortune 100 insurance company, sought solutions to the increasing costs of data and software. In this keynote speech from LinuxWorld & Expo 2006 in San Francisco, Guru Vasudeva, Nationwide’s AVP and enterprise chief architect, explains how [See the full post…]

Intel’s Richard Wirt continues his talk on the evolution of grid computing and real world applications with guest Peter Lee, CEO of DataSynapse who featured some real time virtualization demos. This is the 2nd of 2 parts from his keynote [See the full post…]

Richard Wirt, general manager of Intel’s software and solutions group and a senior fellow at Intel, talks about Linux and highlights the evolution of grid computing and real world applications. He was joined by Bill Coleman, CEO of Cassatt to [See the full post…]

Greg Besio, Motorola’s corporate VP of mobile devices software, talks about Linux in the mobile world, and demos two Linux-based mobile phones popular in China: The Ming and the ROKR E2. The 1st of 2 parts from his keynote address [See the full post…]